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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Think you're confusing the French Revolution (violent uprising of the French against their aristocratic rulers during the Enlightenment) with the French Resistance (Underground movement during WW2 that resisted Nazi occupation)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think his politics are pretty far right, at least based on this video: https://youtu.be/nvQ-ZY460WQ

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Here's my hot tip! (ok maybe luke warm)

Write as much of your CICD in a scripting language like bash/python/whatever. You'll be able to test it locally and then the testing phase of your CICD will just be setting up the environment so it has the right git branches coined, permissions, etc.

You won't need to do 30 commits now, only like 7! And you'll cry for only like 20 minutes instead of a whole afternoon!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have a Fairphone 4 and would definitely give them the biggest recommendation I could.

Any part can be replaced with a screwdriver which is an order of magnitude better than I've seen with other brands. I dropped and broke my phone screen and although I had to buy a new screen, after that I had a phone working as if it was brand new.

I also got mortar into my usb charging socket and was able to replace the charging socket.

You might be able to tell that I'm not the best at looking after things, I'm working on this but in the meantime, fairphone have saved me at least two situations where I'd normally need to buy a new phone. Can't recommend them enough.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Man, I sure wish cybertrucks had been around to deflect when I spent 7 years driving a Fiat Panda.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think that's a really good point to be fair. Would be interested to see what it was on a consumption basis - like other people are pointing out, the lifestyle of the ultra rich is definitely pretty carbon intensive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think there's a lot of focus on minimizing individual's impact, and don't get me wrong, that's a great thing to do, but it puts burden and guilt on people for things that are out of their control

If your government (wherever you are) held fossil fuel companies and the agro-industrial complex to account and encouraged investment in renewables, public transport and ground sourced heating, you would be living a low impact lifestyle just by going to work, buying your groceries and living normally.

If you have the money to invest in solar panels, EVs etc, that's fantastic, but don't feel guilt for not being priviledged!

The most impactful thing you can do is put pressure on your government to recognise the impact we're having on our ecology. Sign petitions, write to your representative, fund and/or join activist groups.

Importantly, try not to feel shamed, as an individual you didn't cause the situation (unless maybe you are a fossil fuel lobbyist, or oilcompany CEO) - go easy on yourself and just do what you can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for such a detailed response! I'm planning on mainly using it for smallish trips, say heading into my local town. I've recently move to being just outside walking distance but it's very short distance to drive for.

I also live around a lot of woods and it'd be good to be able to ride on a dirt path now and then.

From what I can see a 'hybrid' sounds like it'd be a good fit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks! Relieved it sounds easy enough to figure out

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This is the dumbest bet you can make and more or less the definition of lose/lose- if we fail to move off greenhouse gasses, what kind of mad max style future are you hoping to be rich in?

 

I'm looking to purchase a bike (probably second hand) and I want to make sure that it'll be easily repairable in the future for at least standard maintenance stuff.

Thing is, I don't know anything about bikes- I've heard people say off hand that modern bikes might perform better but are less maintanable, is this a thing? What qualities/features in a bike tell me that it'll be easier to maintain in the long run?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago

By the power invested in me by, well, nobody whatsoever, can I just take a minute to say, let's all cool down a little in the comments!

There's a lot of arguing against:

  • The idea that acknowledging the tragic reality of climate change makes you defeatist
  • The idea that because we have had some great advantages in green tech we can sit back and let climate change fix itself

I don't see anyone making those arguments here though! Just lots of people concerned about climate change with different skews of how positive/negative we should feel.

Personally, I swing between powerful optimism and waking in terror at 3:00am for the future we're hurtling towards. I'm sure other people are the same, so let's just be friendly to the fact that other people are in different vibes to us.

There are some people working together very well right now to dismantle the climate, so let's all remember that when we're talking with each other.

Peace and love!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A lot of the comments here are, pretty fairly, sceptical of whether this is a viable idea.

My question is, what's the advantage meant to be over just having an electrical railway and seperately some solar panels plugged into the grid? Especially since the article mentions the solar railway would be grid connected?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13881784

Hy (a lisp built on top of Python similar to how Clojure is built on top of Java) released v1 recently. I couldn't resist playing with it and found it worked sooo nicely. Thanks all the maintainers for creating a great language!

 

Hy (a lisp built on top of Python similar to how Clojure is built on top of Java) released v1 recently. I couldn't resist playing with it and found it worked sooo nicely. Thanks all the maintainers for creating a great language!

 

Hey folks, appologies if this has been asked before (although surprisingly I couldn't find a similar post) - what solarpunk book, film, game, tv, etc recommendations does every have?

I'm only just discovering the genre, looking for some good starting points!

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